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"Get off the road!" Tho over the top of us, her boots gouging into hs as she clambered past us, and into the front seat between Thoripped one of the weapons we’d packed before leaving Silent Creek, a long black rifle-looking thing that was as foreign to me as one of Jett’s motherboards

Thankfully, I wasn’t the one who had to fire the thing

"I told you this was a bad idea!" Willow shouted as she shoved Thoer-side door

Neither Simon nor Tho; only his eyes were visible above the dash Willow leaned over the top of hiun out the shattered side

"Cover your ears," she called out absently, and it was hard to tell if she was talking to Si, or to the rest of us

I didn’t take any chances, and stuck er

It turns out, fingers ht quarters The sound rattled the inside of the car, and ht have suffered per Annie Oakley, I kept the at us? Can’t we just surrender?" I yelled, wondering if anyone could even hearpattern that I assuive whoever had aet One second I was colliding against the glass onNatty as she was shoved against Jett on the other side of her I was grateful I’d never been prone toon the world’s worst roller coaster

Willoas on her knees now as she crouched over the top of Simon and used his shoulders to support her elbows, hollered back at !"

It took me a second to process what she’d said Surely I’d misheard her--e

There was a brief pause, and then Simon answered me "Trust us--" he called back

He was about to say more, but was cut off when a sudden jolt came from the front of the car The entire vehicle shook, and then it wobbled hard, and eventually it just see her head against the dash, and before she could regain her own balance, Thoain, so she was out of Si wheel This time, when the SUV bounced over the rocks at the side of the road, we rapidly lost speed, and the roller coaster felt more like bumper cars